A five-day, three-game road trip to Ontario and Quebec started well for the Providence Bruins but ended on a sour note.

In Belleville on Wednesday night, the P-Bruins gutted out a 3-2 shootout win thanks to Michael DiPietro’s standout performance in goal.

Moving on to Laval, Providence lost 2-1 on Friday and then dropped a 6-3 decision on Saturday as they continued to have trouble scoring.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

— Mike DiPietro stopped 35 of 37 shots and all three in the shootout in the win in Belleville. His 1.59 goals-against average is ninth in the AHL. His .940 save percentage is 11^th.

— Vinni Lettieri scored a goal on Saturday and leads the team in scoring with 5-2-7 in 9 games.

— Joey Abate scored his first goal of the season in Belleville on Wednesday and Georgii Merkulov did the same in Laval on Friday.

— Brett Harrison scored the only goal in the shootout victory in Belleville.

— Stick tap for Frederic Brunet. He challenged Laval pest Xavier Simoneau to drop the gloves on Saturday and then handled the mouthy Frenchman, whose bark is worse than his bite.  

BAD

— Providence finished the weekend in the Atlantic Division basement, tied with Springfield and Bridgeport.

— The P-Bruins have scored 19 goals in 9 games. Only Utica (16) and Chicago (11) have scored fewer.

— Marc McLaughlin, Riley Duran, Brett Harrison and Trevor Kuntar are all still looking for their first goal of the season.

— Puck luck has been hard to come by lately. On Saturday, the P-Bruins were 50 seconds away from escaping the first period with a lead, but then Laval’s Vincent Arseneau threw a pass in the general direction of a teammate and it clanked off Freddy Brunet’s skate and into the net, tying the score at one.

— After allowing 5 goals on 21 shots in Saturday’s loss, Brandon Bussi is 0-4 with a save percentage of .850.

— Providence was outscored 13-6 in its three losses to Laval this season and simply could not stop defenseman Logan Mailloux, who had 3-6-9 in the three games.

— The P-Bruins have scored the first goal seven times in nine games, but have gone on to win only three of those games.

— They’ve been outscored 15-5 in the second period.

— If you were surprised that things got out of control near the end of Saturday’s game then you obviously are not familiar with the work of referee Mathieu Menniti.  

UGLY

— Providence has scored twice and given up two shorthanded goals on 37 power play opportunities. At 5.4 percent, the PP is last in the AHL.

— Injured: Alec Regula, Fabian Lysell, Billy Sweezey, Jaxon Nelson